2011

China Development Forum 2011 – China’s global integration22 January 2011. Speakers include Sir Howard Davies, Professor Athar Hussain, Professor Danny Quah and a long list of others addressing the issues arising from China’s increasing international responsibilities and involvement. Co-organised with LSE China Development Society with assistance from Confucius Institute for Business and the 48 Group Club.

Seminar Series on Law and Society in Taiwan, 5-6 December 2011This seminar series has been organised by the LSE Taiwan Research Programme in collaboration with the National Taiwan University School of Law. The speakers are graduate students selected from the National Taiwan University School of Law, and the LSE discussants will bring a range of insights relating to law, anthropology, and ethics.

Focus on India 2011India Observatory and LSE Careers Service Event
Date: Thursday 24th February 2011. Time: 6pm to 8pm. Venue: D402, Clement House.
Now in it’s forth successful year, Focus on India 2011 is a great way to network with key employers with an Indian interest. With a short discussion on what employers look for and how to market your UK education, this will be followed by informal networking where you will have the opportunity to speak to representatives from organisations including HSBC, Herbert Smith, The State Bank of India and P and G. Go to My Careers Service to sign up.

Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme Launch13th January 2011. The Tata International Social Entrepreneurship Scheme offers LSE students the opportunity to undertake 8 week social entrepreneurship and CSR projects at the Tata Group in India. This is an information session for students interested in joining the 2011 Tata ISES programme.

South Korea as an Emerging Donor: Challenges and Changes on its Entering OECD/DAC.
9 February 2010, 7-8:30pm, Vera Anstey Room, Old Building, LSESpeaker: Prof. Heejin Lee

Professor Lee will be discussing South Korea as an emerging donor. He has a multidisciplinary background in business administration, sociology and information systems. He studied at Seoul National University, Korea and received his doctorate from LSE in 1997. Before taking up his current position at Yonsei University, he was a faculty member of the University of Melbourne, Australia and of Brunel University, UK. Professor Lee has written extensively on the implications of broadband as well as time and IT. Currently, he is researching ICT for development (ICT4D) and China's ICT standards policy.

Reasons for Optimism post-Copenhagen 'How can India take a global leadership role in the emerging Low Carbon economy8 February 2010, The Ballroom, Shangri-La's - Eros Hotel, New Dehli, IndiaSpeaker: Professor Lord Nicholas Stern

Four Puzzles on Democratic Change in South Asia29 January 2010, 13:30-15:00, U103, Tower One, LSESpeaker: Dr Hossain Zillur Rahman,Executive Chairman of the Dhaka-based think tank Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC)Chair: Prof. David Lewis, Professor of Social Policy and Development, LSE

Book launch and Panel Discussion: Not by Reason Alone
26 January 2010, 4:00-5:30pm, Old Theatre, Old Building, LSEAuthor: N.K. Singh

This inter-disciplinary volume reconsiders culture in Taiwan. It has its own distinctive collective voice, providing a point of departure for thinking through cultural issues in general. Stephan Feuchtwang, Fang-Long Shih, Stuart Thompson and Paul-François Tremlett are members of the LSE Taiwan Research Programme Committee

Criminal Justice in Taiwan and China12 March 2009. 6:30-8:00pm. U8, Tower One, LSE
Professor Jerome A. Cohen, New York University School of Law
Chair: Prof. Stephan Feuchtwang.

Workshop: Indonesia on the Eve of Elections: Religion, Politics and the Uses of Disorder5 March 2009
Co-sponsored by the ARC and the French Embassy London
Presentations by Romain Bertrand, Science Po, with discussant Ben Murtagh; Andree Feillard, CNRS-Paris, with discussant John Sidel, LSE; and Jerome Tadie, IRD- Paris, with discussant Lee Wilson, Cambridge

Negotiating with North Korea25 February 2009. 4:00-6:00pm
Panel discussion on recent developments in the Korean Peninsula. Discussion to be opened by Ambassador Chun Yung-Woo who represented South Korea in the six nations talks.

Professor Danny Quah's lecture is part of a lecture series during the lent term on 30 Years of Reform in China in which we will be reflecting on what has happened to date and looking ahead to what is yet to come.

This workshop was organized in New Delhi to bring together invited scholars from the UK and India, to discuss their current research. It explored the potential for developing a collaborative research agenda. Around thirty invited scholars from the UK and from India participated in this workshop. Discussions were organized around the following four themes:

Urban Environment Sustainability: Factors driving decision making under conditions of multiple sources of uncertainty; Socio-economic consequences of different policies and strategies.

Low Carbon Technologies: Development and transfer of environmental technologies including low carbon technologies, and institutional issues related to financing and decentralization.

Adaptation to Climate Change: Water and food security; Institutional barriers to efficient, effective and equitable adaptation; Tools and strategies for adaptation in the public and private sectors

China, America and India: The dragon, the eagle and the elephant - or stone, scissors and paper?6 November 2008. 6:30-8:00pm. New Theatre, East Building, LSE
Speaker: Charles Dumas and David Smith
Chair: Prof. Athar Hussain, LSE

The Two Faces of Asia: Bridging the Gap between High Growth Economies and the Poor2 October 2008. 6:30-8:00pm. Old Theatre, Old Building, LSE. Speaker: Mr. Rajat Nag, Managing Director General, Asia Development Bank
Chair: Prof. Athar Hussain

Conference: The Emergence of China and India in the Global Economy.3-5 July 2008
Sponsors: Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the India Observatory, and the Institute for Economic Research (IFO)

India at 60 in a Changing World: next 20 years15 October 2007
The LSE India Observatory was launched on with a panel discussion.
Chair: Howard Davies, Director LSE
Panel Discussants: OP Bhatt, chairman of the State Bank of India; Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England; Kamal Nath, the minister for commerce and industry, Government of India; YV Reddy, governor of the Reserve Bank of India; Nicholas Stern, IG Patel Chair in Government and Economics

2006

LSE's third Asia Forum - a major academic and social event to celebrate and reinforce its relationship with India. India's prominent business leaders, policy makers and academic experts came together to explore developments in Asia and to engage with the continent's contribution to the governance of globalisation. An LSE chair was announced, named in honour of Dr Patel and the setting up of an India Observatory, both supported by the Reserve Bank of India and State Bank of India.

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